The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1887-06-08


we were to sail around to Ranen, sell the
old b0atfor what it would fetch and buy
| the new one. Great were the prepare
tions, for we intended to make q pleas
lre party Of il, and take Karen and all
the children. MyWife insisted that she
should stay at home that the industri-
GUS house mother should have at least one
1 days diversion that S, she was not my
wife then; she was AZ orphan, like me,
1 who had been adopted BY the kind fish
herman. Oh, if Elsa had only gone with.
llus we would have come back safe and
happy, for Elsa is q Finn, and the Firms
know all sea magic and can bring to:
nought all the entertainments Of the mer-
men But it was fated
The day fixed for our trip was perfect.
The sky was bright and clear; light
breeze, fair for Ranen, just rnfied the
sea. We were amerry party; we sailed
away laughing and singing, while Elsa
waved us good luck from the shore.
We soon reached sRanen, and while
Karen and the children went to the house
Of friend, Elias andI sought the boat
| builder.
We managed to sell our old boat,
though we got but little for it. Then.
began long and careful examination Of
ten-oared boats. We were hard to please,
| but at last found one that seemed to- be
just what we wanted. Her model below
the Water-line was SO perfect, so superior
to any that we had ever seen, that we de-
termincd to buy her, although she seemed
overmasted and rather clumsily rugged. 4
The boatbuilder acknowledg ed this
himself, saying that ~ had finished her
hurriedly, being ovefrun with work.
But, y said he, ssyou will find that there
is no boat in these waters that can sail
with her. She is a perfect model. Look
at her lines. The faults you mention are,
after all, but tri6es. You can alter her
rigging to suit yourselves when you get
her to Kralholm; besides, I am just
man, and will allow you something OFF
the price, so that you will really have .
bargain =
50, after some haggling, price was
agreed upon, which Elias paid down, and
the boat was his. The boatbuilder, how
ever, made us promise faithfully not to
alter her in the least particular, not even
to touch her with tar brush, until we
were at Kralholm. For,n said he, ~
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